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Looks like the GRFP website goes in maintenance to upload reviews, just like they did to upload award offer/HM results. If they don't run into any problems, we may have the reviews/reviewers' feedbacks by later today (4/20). Excited to see those feedbacks!

Looks like the GRFP website goes in maintenance to upload reviews, just like they did to upload award offer/HM results. If they don't run into any problems, we may have the reviews/reviewers' feedbacks by later today (4/20). Excited to see those feedbacks!

Assuming the same amount of people apply this year as last year (~12,200), the acceptance rate this year would be about 13%, which I've placed on the graph below with the question mark (green is stipend level, blue is acceptance rate).

tfw in-person Stanford visit is cancelled due to COVID-19

It's kind of annoying a lot of visits are cancelled. It certainly is for the best, but it doesn't make things any easier!

Patiently waiting for March/April!

Same. Good news is that I'm done and decided. Yay!

Minnesota is 2/27-3/1 or 3/26-3/29

not a rejection but i'm concerned

University Of Pennsylvania BGS, Biochemistry And Molecular Biophysics, PhD (F19) Rejected via E-mail on 10 Jan 2019  A 12 Jan 2019 report spam BS in Biochemistry at Temple U. 6 month undergraduate research in biophysics (wet lab), 6 months undergraduate research in Computational biophysics, and 2 years as a research technician in pathobiology at UPenn. 3 co-authors and currently submitting a first author paper. 4 LORs. Rejected via email. I'm a middleclass white male. I'm not saying I'm the best candidate, but if you arent a female or URM, you will most likely be rejected. On their program overview page it says over the past few years 61% were female and 31% URM. Good luck to all of you hard working white men out there! Classic. Lol!!!
University Of Pennsylvania MCGD, PhD (F18) Rejected via E-mail on 13 Jan 2019    12 Jan 2019 report spam To the UPenn poster below... I am Native American and biologically female, have a second-author paper in Science and a first-author in a very minor journal, as well as 1 year of full-time research experience and all the works. Also got rejected. Top programs are always a coin-toss after a certain threshold is met, I don't think it has anything to do with your race or gender. University Of Pennsylvania BGS, PhD (F19) Interview via Other on 13 Jan 2019    12 Jan 2019 report spam To my fellow white dude below: I was given an interview at penn (as well as been rejected from a looot of other top programs). All of these programs are hyper competitive and it only begots bitterness to bellitle the success of others... even if they don’t look like you. Fight on! Hahaha, I'm dead.

*sips from delicious glass of white tears*
"BS in Biochemistry at Temple U. 6 month undergraduate research in biophysics (wet lab), 6 months undergraduate research in Computational biophysics, and 2 years as a research technician in pathobiology at UPenn. 3 co-authors and currently submitting a first author paper. 4 LORs. Rejected via email. I'm a middleclass white male. I'm not saying I'm the best candidate, but if you arent a female or URM, you will most likely be rejected. On their program overview page it says over the past few years 61% were female and 31% URM. Good luck to all of you hard working white men out there!"

Haha, here's a good one from today: Each word in their rejection notification cost me $1.55...

Princeton has not yet. They should be released tomorrow (Wednesday 1/15).
Source: insider knowledge from friend at Princeton & I talked with one of my POI at a conference yesterday

Agreed! If anything, let the world be rid of the GRE.

Princeton has not yet. They should be released tomorrow (Wednesday 1/15).
Source: insider knowledge from friend at Princeton & I talked with one of my POI at a conference yesterday

One of my friend is pursuing PhD under Prof. Victor, who is the graduate admissions chair at UW this year. This guy informed me that as ChemE dept offered large number of admits last year, they are offering less admits this year and the number is something around 12-15. He also informed that all the admits are released at this point of time.

I have a feeling this week will be the craziest week with the most acceptances sent out. Good luck everyone!!

I have a feeling this week will be the craziest week with the most acceptances sent out. Good luck everyone!!

I applied a day before the deadline and heard back on 12/10. POI's I wrote about on my SOP are FW, HM, and PT. I didn't contact them before the application.
As for my stats, I have 3.9/4.0 GPA, high GRE (>90% on Q and writing). 0 pubs. I've worked for 1.5 years in a full time RA position in industry that's closely related to the field of research I am interested in. I'm convinced that this last part probably helped me a lot because the company I worked for is well-known in the space.
I hope you have happy holidays too!

I applied a day before the deadline and heard back on 12/10. POI's I wrote about on my SOP are FW, HM, and PT. I didn't contact them before the application.
As for my stats, I have 3.9/4.0 GPA, high GRE (>90% on Q and writing). 0 pubs. I've worked for 1.5 years in a full time RA position in industry that's closely related to the field of research I am interested in. I'm convinced that this last part probably helped me a lot because the company I worked for is well-known in the space.
I hope you have happy holidays too!